A Taft in Full
In December 1909, the president of the United States traveled to New York City to address a black-tie dinner promoting Christian missionary work. He was there in his official capacity, and not as his country's most prominent Unitarian, a faith as controversial then as John F. Kennedy's Catholicism was half a century later. From the elegant ballroom the president made his way through a driving rainstorm to a Bowery shelter for homeless men, "which I hope will always help you and others over the …



